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“Why are you so deteret me to tell you what you should do about Steven, Ms Miller?” I interrupted “I mean, you’re the expert, and I know you know all about his recent history Shouldn’t you be able to use your degrees to figure this out or whatever?”
“I don’t want toa situation too quickly, Tamara,” said Miller “I sincerely believe that every person is entitled to redemption in their lives… but what Steven did was particularly heinous, even considering thein the opposite direction, giving hi women”
“Have you ever asked hi circuuess he told you some of the facts and that’s why you feel a bit sorry for hih what happened to him, have you? How do you expect to help hi shame over what he did and eventually maybe work out how to do better froht questions of everyone I needed to… eventually
Ms Miller had nothing to say to ot up and started to pace in her tiny room “Do you knohat my theory is?” She reached for her pen and paper “I don’t think you want to give Steven a break at all I think you’re looking for soh, so you can tell yourself it’s all right to discount him completely”
I smirked at her “He’s bad, Ms Miller… but I don’t think it’s all the way through”
She shook herself, as if she could stop what I’d said fro to need to be soiven Rodney”
“I could have sworn his name would be able to be abbreviated to ‘Dick’,” I muttered
Ms Miller was a long way fro now “Son to take on board, but you are going to get it anyway Those of us who have been here forand restrictive because we’ve forgotten what it’s like to be young, to feel all those things for the first tih to see what happens when you just do what you feel The people who get hurt at the other end of it The long-terive you these serious looks and we try to enact discipline because ant to protect you from all of that”
I wanted to scream at her, to demand to knohere anyone had been to protect me all the years of my life until this very e, she really believed she iser than h to accept it didn’t do anyone any good trying to tell them the truth “Please, Ms Miller,” I said “Don’t try to protectI’ll face racious about it I’d do it again in a second, but I’ to face the consequences”
It clearly didn’t please her as ain and rity”
I had a feeling I knehere Steven was going to be when Ms Miller finally let o, so I ducked around the quickest route I could think of to the side of the school where he parked his car I didn’t have any plan to approach hi I just wanted to see hi that had just happened
I was almost there when I rounded a corner a little too quickly and crashed straight into Tyrell’s chest
He laughed as he took a few steps back, closer to his friends “Looks like our resident fighter has decided to try a few rounds with me How about that?”
I just stared at hi fuss When the lot of the me all the space I needed and then soo past theed to pull off one of those looks the really confident popular girls did, the ones they used to keep the really confident popular boys in line?
Iwhatever I’d done by showing I couldn’t live up to it